Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has emerged as a pre-eminent tool for states emerging from intra-state conflict. Much research ...
As the world enters its sixth year of responding to the challenges posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the international community has ...
The risks and vulnerabilities that people face from natural disasters are as much a product of their social situation as their physical environment. ...
The six 'Nordic' donors - Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the UK - commissioned a review of alternative models of support to ...
In 2008 Children in a Changing Climate's research programme worked with ActionAid Nepal, and its partner organisations, to help poor children in ...
Emergency medical care is an important component of effective health care systems. Unfortunately it is often overlooked in low-income countries, where ...
This article from BMC Public Health journal estimates the annual incidence, patterns and severity of unintentional injuries among people aged over five ...
This paper gives an overview of the key challenges faced by small and medium-sized rural enterprises (SMEs) in Afghanistan. It is based on detailed case ...
It is widely believed that there is a strong demand for credit in Afghanistan and that much of this demand is unmet, justifying a major programme in microcredit ...
This report presents the results of the first-ever voluntary disclosure of the carbon emissions of Indian companies. It is based on the submissions of ...
This paper discusses the Indian economy as one of the economies in the developing world that is a “success story' of globalisation. This paper ...
This special Innocenti series on Child Injury, developed jointly by UNICEF and TASC, presents recently acquired evidence from surveys in five Asian countries: ...
The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the 'real economy' in poorer countries around the world. However, the ...
In spite of recent economic growth, poverty in India remains high. But what has been India's poverty reduction rate over time? A new article ...
Models of political accountability suggest that the governments which perform poorly fail to get re-elected. Recent evidence suggests, however, that voters ...
With a focus on Asia, this paper looks at climate change, particularly in terms of pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies. It ...
This paper presents the findings of a study on the working conditions in IKEA's suppliers in Bangladesh and Vietnam. It assesses the working conditions ...
This report presents a detailed and comparative analysis on social, economic and ecological conditions in the tea sector in six of the most important ...
This brief estimates the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. It results from a survey of 1605 successful and unsuccessful Sunni ...
In 2005 four donor countries – Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden – took the initiative for a joint donor evaluation of the management ...
This research article, published in the journal Health Education Research, examines the effectiveness of 24 mass media interventions, published between ...
In spite of recent economic growth, Bangladesh remains a country marked by high poverty. Poverty is particularly high in rural areas where the vast ...
This report addresses the growth of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and considers their potential as a tool for reducing inter- and intra-state conflict. ...
This paper elaborates the developments of trade and trade policy in China and India. It aims to shed light on the role of both trade policy and international ...
Politicians and bureaucrats are two important pillars of governance, but while politicians are motivated by short-term electoral pressures, bureaucrats ...
What happens when livelihoods analysis and value chain analysis are used in combination? How can research on livelihoods and markets produce policy-oriented ...
Picking up on the positive and negative economic impacts of globalisation, this paper focuses on the welfare-enhancing and dislocating aspects of the ...
This paper is the output of a tracking mission to Geneva undertaken by a group of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) researchers to assess the ongoing ...
India made a Constitutional commitment to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14 nearly 60 years ago. The goal, ...
Nepal has had a good economic growth since the mid 80s and throughout the 90s. This has led to increased inequality, but in general the poor have also ...